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Google 地球 7.3.6 版

我們在這個版本的 Google 地球專業版中進行了多處修正、變更及改善，以下列出重點項目：

Movie Maker 工具：
- 使用硬體加速功能進行影片編碼，加快處理速度並提升影像品質。
- 支援 HEVC (H.265) 轉碼器。
- 可在即時錄影模式下使用完整的導覽控制項，包括歷史圖像和街景服務。
- 提升即時錄影期間的回應速度。
- 可在即時錄影結束後再進行影片編碼。
- 避免在錄影模式下出現阻礙錄製狀態的對話方塊。
- 即時錄影功能會準確顯示使用者在錄製期間的操作時間。
- 以 QOI 圖片格式儲存影片畫面。
將「多重幾何圖形」地標分割為個別地標。
將多個選取的地標合併成一個多重幾何圖形地標。
匯入 GeoJSON 檔案。
改善列印工具品質。
Save Image 工具：
- 增加圖片大小上限。
- 支援 PNG 格式。
調整主要檢視畫面、已儲存圖片和印出圖片的 Google 地球標誌大小。
Windows：自動支援高 DPI 顯示器。
macOS：修正 macOS 11 以上版本中難以辨識的對話方塊分頁。
macOS：修飾「我的地點」和「圖層」面板外觀。
圖塊化工具支援 KML 結構定義擴充資料。
持續儲存 KML 檔案，且在工作階段中不會有任何變更。
正確匯入 CSV 檔案，其中含有加上引號的值。
編輯 KML LinearRing 地標線條樣式。
其他小幅修正及改善項目。

Google 地球 7.3.4 版

我們在這個版本的 Google 地球專業版中進行了修正、變更及改良，以下列出重點項目：

異動項目

修正 Mac 和 Windows 上的 3D 控制器裝置。
解決街景模式中發生的導航錯誤。
修正街景服務圖像的失真問題。
改善新地圖圖層功能支援。
加快 GeoTIFF 檔案的匯入速度。
準確呈現星星和夜空背景位置。
改善與 Linux 最新版本的相容性。
安全性更新和修正。
其他修正與強化功能。

Google 地球 7.3.3 版

我們在這個版本的 Google 地球專業版中進行了多處修正、變更和改良，項目如下：

異動項目

更新的街景服務體驗。
強化 plus code 搜尋結果。
按住 Shift 鍵並在地圖上按一下滑鼠右鍵即可顯示 plus code。
「在 Google 地球網路版中檢視」按鈕可開啟 Google 地球網路版目前的檢視畫面。
當您在地標中加入相片時，系統會自動將地標重新定位到相片的全球衛星定位系統位置。
修正重新連接 Wi-Fi 後有時會發生的連線問題。
全球衛星定位系統匯入功能現在支援 GeoJSON 格式。
解決下列安全性漏洞：
- CVE-2020-8895： Windows 可執行安裝程式劫持 DLL。
- CVE-2020-8896：加密金鑰長度無效造成緩衝區溢位。
其他小幅錯誤修正和更新。

Google 地球 7.3.2 版

我們在這個版本的 Google 地球專業版中進行了多處修正、變更及改良，以下列出重點項目。

異動項目

位置面板：選取、移動及刪除多個項目；效能提升
網路安全性更新與修正；改良式憑證支援
CSV 匯入改良：支援舊版 Mac 檔案格式；多行文字欄位
地面疊加層編輯器：修正錯誤旋轉和旋轉控點定位功能
列印預覽：修正滑鼠滾輪縮放功能和畫面重新整理問題
國際語言：修正漏譯、鍵盤快速鍵、UI 元素
表格工具：改良穩定性、版面配置及資料同步功能
導覽功能預設會隱藏，可反映 Google 地球專業版的使用情形
Windows：允許 Google 地球在多個使用者工作階段中並行運作
Windows：改善在高解析度顯示器上呈現的模樣
Windows 64 位元修正：搖桿支援；隱藏 3D 建築物時的當機問題；COM 應用程式 (例如 Garmin BaseCamp) 介面
Linux：支援「SpaceNavigator」3D 控制器驅動程式軟體

Google 地球 7.3.1 版

我們在這個 Google 地球專業版中進行了多處修正、變更及改良，以下列出幾點重要項目。

異動項目

Windows 64 位元：64 位元應用程式
Windows：支援使用安全伺服器的 SSL 用戶端驗證
Windows：改善 DirectX 模式的穩定度
Linux：新增列印及嵌入影片和音效的支援功能
改善大型 KML 檔案的處理效能
改善安全連線和憑證錯誤處理支援
跨越對向子午線的多邊形不會再有短暫消失的情況
修正 CSV 匯入工具的使用者介面問題，並強化 Unicode 支援
改良修復工具
地勢高度剖面圖工具的測量結果更一致
改善使用者介面的翻譯
還原全球衛星定位系統裝置即時模式功能
修正與高重新整理頻率顯示器不相容的問題

已知問題

Windows：從 32 位元升級到 64 位元應用程式會重設快取
「表格」工具使用者介面及穩定度問題

Google 地球 7.3.0 版

這一版 Google 地球用戶端修正的問題

部分地點缺少地形圖像圖塊。
遊覽的錄音和播放功能無法運作。
有錄音的遊覽無法正常儲存。
載入大型 KML 資料檔時會當機。
拖放至應用程式視窗內的檔案無法運作。
無法從含有「.kmz」檔名的路徑開啟 KMZ 檔案。
儲存高解析度圖片時，摩天大樓會遭到截斷。
Windows 安裝程式無法執行 COM 登錄。
無法載入內嵌在 KML 中的部分圖像。
非均質過濾選項無法產生任何作用。
啟動提示的位置有時不正確。
以阿拉伯文顯示的標籤經常遭到截斷。

異動項目

Google 地球「免費版」和「專業版」現已合併為單一產品，名稱為「Google 地球專業版」。
Windows：支援 Windows 7 以上版本。
Windows：新安裝時預設使用 OpenGL 模式。
Mac：支援 Mac OS 10.8 和更新版本。
Mac：應用程式現為 64 位元版本。
Mac：新增消除鋸齒選項。
支援高解析度 (「高 DPI」、「Retina」) 螢幕。
新增「修復工具」，可重設快取資料和設定，並修正應用程式的啟動問題。
為 Movie Maker 工具新增一些影片格式。
提高圖像儲存、列印及影片製作效能。
KML 說明框可使用 Web Inspector 工具。
YouTube 內嵌影片等 HTML5 影片可在地標說明框中播放。
內部網路瀏覽器和安全性功能已更新並經過強化。

已知問題

「透過 Google+ 分享」功能無法運作。
目前不支援 SSL 用戶端憑證。
使用高 DPI 模式時，工具列按鈕和使用者介面圖示會因為解析度不足而出現像素顆粒粗糙的情況。
Windows：像素比例需設為 200% 以上，系統才能支援高 DPI 模式 (使用 googleearth2x.bat 強制執行高 DPI 模式)。

Google 地球 7.1.8.3036 版

這一版 Google 地球用戶端修正的問題

各種安全性問題。
已儲存的 KMZ 中缺少部分檔案。
使用者在登入狀態下使用「在 Google 地圖中查看」功能的當機問題。
Google 地球專業版的授權相關問題。
未正確本地化的使用者介面元素。
設定/偏好設定對話方塊的未預期行為。
Windows：「在 Google 地圖中查看」功能沒有回應。
Windows：意見回饋工具損毀。
Windows：儲存搜尋結果時程式停止運作。
Windows：安裝程式不會清除檔案。
Mac：在 OS X 10.6 上執行時的當機問題。
Mac：各種 Google 地球變化版本間的安裝程式衝突。
Linux (Debian)：在搜尋時當機。
Linux：安裝程式未安裝必要的程式庫。
Linux：錯誤的網路警告訊息。
Linux：查看 Google Moon 地標時的當機問題。

異動項目

地標編輯作業適用的圖片挑選器。
移除 Google 地球專業版的「向上銷售」連結。
停用瀏覽器外掛程式 (組合式和獨立式)。
預設啟用高精細度地形。
Windows：Qt 應用程式庫升級。
Linux：現在可以使用 Google 地球專業版。
Linux：安裝程式現在已具備數位簽章。

已知問題

導覽和疊加層有時會蓋住啟動提示和「關於」對話方塊。
Windows (7)：安裝程式繪圖問題。
Linux：Google 地球專業版：Movie Maker 的部分全球衛星定位系統功能無法使用。
Linux：Google 地球專業版：「匯入」對話方塊有時速度緩慢或延遲。

Google 地球 7.1.7.2606 版

這一版 Google 地球用戶端修正的問題

與 Windows XP 的相容性問題。
Google 地球專業版在使用數分鐘後停止更新內容。

Google 地球 7.1.7.2602 版

這一版 Google 地球用戶端修正的問題

與 3dconnexion 架構的相容性問題導致在部分 Mac 電腦上啟動失敗。

Google 地球 7.1.7.2600 版

這一版 Google 地球用戶端修正的問題

移除 Google Maps Engine 和 Google 地球社群的選單項目。
新的 Google 和 Google 地球標誌。
在「我的位置」中重新排列項目所導致的當機問題。
Google 地球專業版：由於專業版不再需要授權，因此移除註冊對話方塊。
Windows：因重新安裝 Google 地球 7.0 版所導致的「1603」安裝程式錯誤。
Linux：字體對話方塊及其他當機問題。
Linux：32 和 64 位元版本間的快取資料不一致的問題。
Linux：RPM 安裝程式的「/usr/bin」目錄權限問題。
Mac 和 Linux：更新 3Dconnexion 控制器裝置的驅動程式支援。

Google 地球 7.1.5.1557 版

這一版 Google 地球用戶端修正的問題

隨著 Oauth 1.0 走入歷史，Google 帳戶申請程序也已從 OAuth 1.0 更新為 OAuth 2.0。Google 地球所有舊版的使用者在 2015 年 5 月 30 日後，將無法再使用 Google 帳戶登入。
修正 Mac OS X 自動更新程序的問題。

Google 地球 7.1.4.1529 版

這一版 Google 地球用戶端修正的問題

所有 Google 地球桌面版的微幅更新

新的 Windows 安裝程式：MSI 套件現在改用 WiX 工具組製作而非 InstallShield。
新的 Mac 安裝程式：新安裝及首次自動更新至 7.1.4 以上版本時，可能需要輸入管理員密碼。
企業版將不再於啟動時連線至 Google Oauth 伺服器。
微幅修正安全性問題
更新標誌 (現在「Earth」使用大寫「E」)

Google 地球 7.1.2.2041 版

這一版 Google 地球用戶端修正的問題

使用者偏好設定中的 [啟用控制器] 選項現在預設為關閉。這樣可防止 Google 地球啟動時，由於搖桿或其他連接 Google 地球的控制器未準確校正，而在螢幕上出現紅色的方向箭頭。
為了提高安全性，[使用 HTTPS 連線至 Google] 選項現在預設為開啟。
修正快取大小超過使用者指定限額的問題。
先前在某些 Windows 裝置上搜尋時會造成當機，這個問題在這一版中已修正。
LEAP API 現已更新至 1.0.8 版。
我們降低了 LEAP 控制器對於使用者手部動作的敏感度。現在你使用 LEAP 時，會感覺到飛行更加平穩，而且可以更準確地控制飛行路徑。

Google 地球 7.1.1.1888 版

這一版 Google 地球用戶端修正的問題

我們已將 LEAP API 更新至 1.0.8 版，並修復了部分 Windows XP 使用者執行 Google 地球時會發生當機的問題。如果您想透過 LEAP 裝置使用 Google 地球，請前往 LEAP Motion 網站下載並安裝 LEAP 驅動程式 1.0.8 以上版本。
[啟用控制器] 選項現在預設為開啟。如果未校正連接電腦的外部控制器 (例如遊戲搖桿)，可能會導致 Google 地球隨著指示動作方向的箭頭一起旋轉。建議按照下列步驟解決這個問題：
1. 關閉選項/偏好設定內 [導覽] 分頁中的 [啟用控制器]
2. 拔除外部控制器的接頭，或
3. 重新校正外部控制器

Earth version 7.1.1.1871

Issues fixed in this release Google Earth Client

We have included another fix for the unified_cache_leveldb_leveldb2 directory filling beyond specified cache limits for some Windows and Macintosh users.
Imagery no longer stays blurry upon zooming in when the cache is full.
Certain NVIDIA cards, notably the GeForce 6600, 6800 and 7950, no longer suffer corrupted text or navigation controls in DirectX mode.
Font and tilt settings now stick between sessions.
Balloon opens now display when recording tours.
We have included UI improvements to Flight Simulator.
When printing, the scale legend now displays correct distances.
Collada models now display with uncorrupted textures.
Polygons and image overlays now display correctly across the Antimeridian.
We fixed an issue with certain GPU - driver combinations whereby no imagery displayed in the client.
The time slider in Sun and Historical Imagery features now displays the correct Daylight Savings time.
Performance and stability improvements.
[Pro] Artifact .avi files are no longer created when rendering movies from tours on Windows. [Pro] Calculating a Viewshed in parts of the southern hemisphere no longer displays an error.
[Pro] The scale legend in the print flow no longer disappears when view is tilted, nor does it change between high-, medium- and low-quality prints

Known issues

On certain Radeon GPUs, specifically the X1600, SketchUp Buildings appear corrupted when Atmosphere is on. As a workaround, enable 3D Imagery in 3D View > Terrain or turn off Atmosphere.
Elevation Profile displays as blank on Mac machines running certain NVIDIA GeForce GPUs.
On Macintosh OS, the Google Earth Plugin will not install in Firefox while Firefox is running. As a workaround, install the Plugin when Firefox is closed. Note that this bug does not affect updating the Plugin, only the first installation.
Audio recorded in tours does not play across platforms. As a workaround, record a tour on the OS that you intend to use while playing the tour.
Tours stop recording when there is no 3D View movement during recording.
For users running Intel 965 Express Chipsets on Windows XP and Windows Vista, Earth will appear pixelated when run in OpenGL mode. As a workaround, run Earth in DirectX mode.
[Pro] Print style options are broken when Atmosphere is off. To enable these options, ensure that Atmosphere is on.
[Pro] A Viewshed warning dialog appears for placemarks at ≤2m and a high tilt.
[Pro] After computing a Viewshed Earth areas outside the Viewshed zone suffer corruption. Exiting the Viewshed will correct the display of these areas.

Earth version 7.1.1.1580

New features in Google Earth Pro

Ability to create rich, annotated images from print and save
Redesigned print flow
Viewshed/Line of Sight analysis tool from a placemark

New features in Google Earth and Google Earth Pro

Support for LEAP Motion device
Enhanced starfield
Google Feedback tool integration
Redesigned balloons

Issues fixed in this release

Google Earth Client

Polygons and image overlays display over the international dateline
Performance improvements in Movie Maker and in viewing 3D imagery areas
Ocean surface displays across Mac clients with Intel GPUs
Full Map names display in Google Maps Engine maps
Earth client now supports NTLM authentication for a PAC file
Fixed Incorrect "Z-order" in rendering overlapped vector layers

Known issues

Plugin fails to initialize on Internet Explorer 10 and 11. As a workaround, we suggest enabling Compatibility View.
Elevation profiles display as blank on certain Mac configurations.
The Google Earth Plugin will not install while the Firefox browser is running. As a workaround, install the Google Earth Plugin while the browser is closed.

Earth version 7.0.3.8542

Issues fixed in this release

Google Earth Client

We have put in a fix for the unified_cache_leveldb_leveldb2 directory filling beyond specified cache limits for some Windows users.
We now handle SSL certificate revocation errors appropriately.
Lighting of Diorama buildings in OGL now appears correctly.
Balloons no longer flicker while playing tours.
We have improved the appearance of image and polygon overlays for users running some families of Radeon GPUs.
We have included stability improvements for users running GeForce 6xxx and 7xxx cards.
We have included stability improvements for users running Earth for extended periods of time.
Imagery now displays for Linux users running specific families of Intel GPUs.

Google Earth Plugin

Placemark and linestring quality no longer diminishes in the Plugin with browser refresh.

Known issues

Water surfaces around coastlines will flicker then resolve upon zoom.
[Pro/Enterprise] Rendering of movies, especially movies that show 3D imagery at a tilt, is very slow. As a workaround, we recommend using Google Earth 6.2.2.6613 for movies that require such a perspective.

Earth version 7.0.2

What’s new in Google Earth 7.0.2 release?

We have included substantial performance improvements to this build. You should see scenes load more rapidly than in our previous public Beta release.
We have included minor tweaks to the Tour Guide UI.

Issues fixed in this release

Google Earth Client

We fixed the bug that prevented users from recording movies from saved tours.
Wikipedia text displays in tours.
Gray buildings and extruded polygons have improved lighting effects.
Imagery holes no longer appear after sun has been turned on in DirectX on certain hardware configurations.
Icons align correctly upon installation of .dmg.

Known issues in Google Earth 7 OOB

When run in DirectX mode on certain Radeon graphics cards on Windows, SketchUp models and extruded polygons will appear gray. To work around this issue, run Earth in OpenGL mode.
When run in OpenGL mode on certain Intel graphics cards, SketchUp models and extruded polygons will appear gray. To work around this issue, run Earth in DirectX mode.
Clamped Polygons and Image Overlays display multiple instances in 3D cities on certain hardware configurations.
KML overlays don't render correctly in 3D cities in DX on certain hardware configurations.
Water surfaces around coastlines will flicker then resolve upon zoom.
Placemark and linestring quality diminishes in the Plugin with browser refresh. To workaround, zoom closely into the KML you want to view.
Terrain and Water Surface oddities exist at the antimeridian.

Earth version 7.0

Support for 3D imagery data: 3D data provides a comprehensive representation of metropolitan environments around the world. 3D imagery is currently available in the these areas.
Tour Guide mechanism in the client: The new tour guide allows you to explore interesting places around the world, even if you don’t know to search for them. As you move, thumbnails of pre-created tours and points of interest will dynamically update with interesting locations in your current view. Read more.
Support for terrain data accessed via Google Maps Engine
Zooming in now tilts at a higher elevation in order to showcase 3D imagery
A unified graphical rendering pipeline
Redesigned startup tips and status bar

Issues fixed in this release

Google Earth Client

Fixed a Pro and Enterprise bug whereby cached login data disappeared after upgrading to Mac OS 10.8+.
Sound can now be recorded from a microphone when producing a tour.
Improved Atmosphere feature for users on certain NVIDIA GeForce cards.
Polygons clamped to seafloor now display correctly.

Known issues in Google Earth 7

PC Enterprise users will note flashing historical imagery when going to the minimum date of the time slider in a handful of areas around the world. To workaround, use 6.2 for Enterprise.
Terrain, imagery and polygons that overlap the antemeridian occasionally appear broken.
This build includes changes to shaders that strain older graphics cards. Please see system requirements for updated lists of recommended hardware.

Earth version 6.2

New features in this release

Enhanced search, including support for:
- Clearer local business and directions search results. These now appear in full HTML in the left hand panel.
- Improved quality thresholds on search results.
- Walking directions, biking directions, and transit search.
- Search layers in local business searches. In a local business search, you now see all relevant results in the 3D view, 10 results in the search panel.
- Suggest in search. As you type a search query, search suggestions appear in a drop-down menu.
- Loading search results with one click, not two.

Improved imagery rendering, including:
- Google Earth imagery is significantly more seamless, especially at higher altitudes
- Fade-in animation for imagery as it is fetched.
- Anisotropic filtering by default.
- Improved level of detail calculation for imagery tiles.

Unified network stack. Google Earth now uses the same network stack for imagery, vector content, balloon content and embedded browser content. This will avoid situations where imagery loads but balloon content does not display under certain proxy settings.
Ability to share screenshots with your Google+ circles from within the Google Earth client.
Unified Google login mechanism in the client.
Improved performance with 3D buildings.

Issues fixed in this release

Google Earth Client

Fixed an issue where ground overlays without the "icon" tag did not render rectangles using the fill color. KML ground overlays where images fail to load will now draw rectangles using a default or user-specified fill color.
Added the ability to create balloon HTML for locally saved images using the “Add image” button.
Fixed proxy accessibility issues for the Google Earth Plug-in and Client.
Added the ability to update network links in parallel on synchronous updates.

Google Earth Browser Plug-in and API

Fixed an issue where the Google Earth Browser Plug-in generated an “ATL 10.0” error while running on Internet Explorer versions 8 and 9.
Fixed an issue where Google Earth Browser Plug-in wouldn’t resize on Firefox version 4 and above on Mac.
Fixed an issue where the “-” key was not working on Google Earth Plug-in on Mac.
Fixed an issue where the AJAX loader returned false for isSupported() on 64-bit browsers that are not supported.
Fixed the rendering order of imagery layers added through side databases.
Fixed an issue where 3D buildings did not update with changes in view when terrain is not visible.

Known issues in Google Earth 6.2

New search pages and screenshot sharing pages are not fully translated into all languages.
Text in the Google login box is clipped at the bottom.
Some instability and growth in memory usage is seen in long running or looping tours and while making movies from long tours.

Earth version 6.1

New in Google Earth Pro:

Google Earth Pro has improved support for printing from the client. Changes include a legend with a North indicator and scale, controls for print/paper size, and improved performance.
Google Earth Pro has improved the experience of making movies by simplifying the user interface and improving performance in certain configurations.
Importing data files in Google Earth Pro is now easier with the ability to edit shared balloon style for folders and to increase the import categorization limit from 8 to 64.
Google Earth Pro now allows you to view an elevation profile while measuring.

In Google Earth (Consumer and Pro version):

Improved the robustness of network access by providing better support for Proxy and SSL certs. This will fix issues users have experienced of not being able to see balloon content or embedded browser content.
Improved the resolution seen in elevation profiles for lines and tracks.
Added the ability to sort “My Places,” and improved the user interface to be able find points across my places.
There were several improvements to Street View in Google Earth. We added the ability to zoom into a Street View photo by using a zoom slider. Street View in Earth feels more immersive now due to wider field of view. It is now faster and smoother to use. We made several small tweaks to the user interface including adding a way to navigate floors when you are indoors and there are multiple floors available in Street View.
Fixed bugs related to missing road labels in cases where roads were curvy or zoomed into.

In Google Earth API for browser plugins:

Added API for working with tours.

Fixed bugs and product changes:

To conform more closely with the OGC KML 2.2 standard, we've made the parsing of the <coordinates> tag more strict in version 6.1. Spaces must only be used to separate the (longitude,latitude,altitude) triplets which specify the coordinates of a single point. It is invalid to add spaces between individual coordinates. We understand that previous versions of the client were more lenient, so if your KML files contain spaces beween coordinates in coordinate triplets, an easy workaround is to remove all whitespace located immediately before or after commas inside a <coordinates> tag.
Several performance improvements that would allow smoother experience in specific computer configurations.
Fixed 'Restrict to View' functionality during a shapefile import in Google Earth Pro.
Fixed an issue where Google Earth would sometimes save incorrect ordering of elements in KML.
Added field of view recording to tours and ability to play back those changes.
Fixed an issue where the icon heading did not work in Google Earth API.
Changes to reduce occurrences of missing desktop icon and shortcut menu items on an update.
Sped up overlay polygon rendering in OpenGL mode.
Fixed loading of kmz files when the first file at the root level was image file.
Upgraded GDAL support to 1.7.0 and fixed issues with importing .tab files in Google Earth Pro.
Fixed the discrepancy caused in measurements due to multiple radii of Earth used inside Google Earth.
Fixed an issue where placemarks created with UTM coordinates did not move when edited.
Fixed an issue when screen overlays disappeared in a print-out.

Earth version 6.0.2

Issues Fixed with Desktop Client:

Fixed a problem where we were over fetching certain kml layer data and running into issuing of using large amounts of memory and slowness during zooming in.
Fixed an issue of ruler tool disappearing. In 6.0 beta, when measuring using the path tool, if you break to add a place-mark then you go back to the path and click "save" the path and ruler tool disappears all together.
Fixed an issue with incorrectly measuring long distances. Improved navigation in Street View inside buildings.
Fixed a crash with elevation profile if there was empty gx:value node in KML.
Optimized amount of terrain and imagery data fetched while viewing photo overlays.
Fixed an occasional crash while viewing 3D buildings. Fixed broken fly-to links within local kml files.
Fixed an issue where new place-marks added were with absolute altitude instead of being clamped to ground.
Fixed an issue where the title for panoramio pictures no longer appeared when hovering over panoramio icons with your mouse if scale legend was enabled.
Fixed an issue when there was occasionally a missing wall in 3D buildings.
Optimized amount of data fetched in Street View.
Fixed an issue where tilt by holding “shift” and moving the scroll wheel only worked in one direction on Mac.

Issues Fixed in Earth Browser Plug-in:

Fixed a crash when getNormalStyleUrl was called on a StyleMap referencing a non-existent Style.
Fixed some issues in using plug-in on https sites.
Fixed functionality of disabling ground level navigation through API.

Earth version 6.0B

New features in Google Earth 6

Integrated Street View: In Google Earth 6, the Street View experience is now fully integrated. You can enter Street View either by dropping pegman in navigation controls or by zooming in all the way to ground level on places that have Street View.
3D Trees:Google Earth now has trees. You can enable trees by turning on the check-box next to the Trees layer under the 3D buildings layer folder. You can see trees in several places, and we will add trees to more places over time.
Easy to use historical imagery:When you fly to an area where historical imagery is available, the date of the oldest imagery will appear in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. If you click on this date, you’ll instantly be taken back in time to view imagery from that time period.
Ground-level navigation: In Google Earth 6, in addition to flying around features, you can now walk on the ground to explore either 3D buildings and trees or Street View imagery.
3D Measurements in Google Earth Pro:In addition to measuring distances and areas on the ground, you can now measure heights and widths of 3D building and distances from buildings to the ground.

Other changes in Google Earth 6

Tour Recorder Improvements:With Google Earth 6, the tour recording feature has been improved in several ways. The tour recorder now incorporates the activation of Sunlight, Street View, and Historical Imagery modes into the recorded tour. Additionally, the quality of the recording has been significantly improved, including better motion fidelity and better synchronization with sound recording.
Earth on PowerPC Mac:We are discontinuing support for Google Earth builds that work on PowerPC Macs. Users of PowerPC macs can still use the Google Earth 5.2 version.
Earth on OS X 10.4:We are discontinuing support for Google Earth builds that work on 10.4 version of Mac OS X. Users of this version of Mac OS X can still use Google Earth 5.2 version.
Earth on Windows 2000:We are discontinuing support for Google Earth builds that work on Windows 2000. Users of Windows 2000 can still use the Google Earth 5.2 version.
Linux Builds:Google Earth Linux binaries are now based on the Linux Standard Base. This improves the compatibility of Google Earth on different Linux distributions, but requires users to have Linux Standard Base installed on their system. If your Linux system does not have LSB, please install it using apt, yum, smart or up2date. As a side effect of moving to LSB, joysticks are currently unsupported.

Issues Fixed

Addressed issues related to slow internal browser and balloon performance
Addressed issues related to broken images in balloons seen in Earth 5.2.
Linux now handles KML in locales where the radix separator isn’t “.”.
Linux fixes for Flash-induced crashes.

Google Earth Plug-in and API Changes

Updated API version 1.007
New class KmlViewerOptions, to set global render state (Historical Imagery, StreetView, and Sun)
Added ability to enable/disable street view in GENavigationControl
Added ability to enable/disable automatic transition to ground level view in GEOptions
Added ability to enable/disable 3d tree rendering through new layer LAYER_TREES
Added altitudeOffset functionality to KmlLinearRing and KmlLineRing. This allows ability to set altitude for all vertices through a single function call.
Added ability to enable/disable building selection through mouse input in GEOptions
Added ability to enable/disable building highlight through mouse input in GEOptions
Added copyAsLookAt() and copyAsCamera() conversion to KmlAbstractView
Improved performance on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

Earth version 5.2 Out of Beta

New features in Google Earth 5.2 Out of Beta:

Visualization of Rain/Snow when the weather layer is enabled in the Google Earth client.

Issues fixed in Google Earth 5.2 Out of Beta:

Fixed polygon overlay rendering issues in the Google Earth Browser Plug-in as well as the Google Earth Client when using Direct X rendering mode.
Improved overall stability by fixing multiple crashes seen since beta release.
Drawing order of ground overlays and polygons has been restored to behavior similar to versions 5.1 and 5.0.
Multiple bugs related to the GPS functionality with different devices have been fixed.
Fixed a bug related to mouse navigation not working when using the Ruler tool.
Panoramic photos in 360 cities layer (and similar other panoramic photos) were tilted with beta version. This bug has been fixed.
Issues seen with lines and polygons in high resolution image saving and printing for Google Earth Pro version have been fixed.
Improved start-up time for the Internal Browser.
Fixed text scale in 3D view for the Movie Maker tool in Google Earth Pro.

Earth version 5.2

New Features in Google Earth 5.2

Improved embedded browser functionality: Better integration of embedded browser with Google Earth Application.
Track and Multitrack in Google Earth: A track allows you to create one visible object in Google Earth (either a Point icon or a Model) that moves over time between multiple positions. Using the time slider, you can animate position and orientation of an object and show a line tracing the path. A multitrack is a collection of tracks. You can create Track and Multitrack by authoring KML documents or by importing your GPS data (from a number of GPS receivers or file formats such as GPX) into Google Earth.
Elevation Profile in Google Earth: You can see elevation profile of a line-string or track in Google Earth. It plots the elevation profile, speed, and associated extended data (for example, heart rate) in a KML file.
Added file import types: NMEA (.log and .nmea), Garmin GDB, Garmin Training Center, and Ozi Explorer files can now all be read. Garmin fitness extensions are now read from GPX. Extended data for Elevation Profile and Track is handled when available.

New Features available in Google Earth Pro 5.2
In addition to features present in Google Earth Consumer version, Google Earth Pro version has support for the following additional features.

Additional Layers in Google Earth Pro:
1. US Demographics: Provided by Nielsen Claritas, shows United States Census Tract Data, including income, age, ethnicity, household size, marital status and more for 2010, as well as a projection for 2015.
2. US Parcel Data: Provided by DataQuick, shows critical parcel and building information for commercial and residential real estate within the United States.
3. US DailyTraffic Counts: Provided by Market Planning Solutions Inc., shows the concentration of automobile traffic for different areas within the United States.
Creation of Efficient Regionated KML for vectors and images: You can now create hierarchical, vector data and image overlays in Google Earth Pro.
Improvements to Draw and Measure tools: Changes make it easier to measure and draw. You can also see measurements by selecting properties of an object now.
General Improvements to importing Spreadsheet Data & Applying Style Templates
Other Changes include:
- Improved polygon rendering.
- Bug fixes for polygons and image overlays spanning date-line/anti-meridian.
- Bug fixes to allow getting closer to 3D models.
- Bug fixes for anti-aliased lines and points in Google Earth.
- Improved stability and memory consumption by Google Earth Application.
- Minor enhancements to Time UI in Google Earth Application.
- New icons for Pro and EC versions of Google Earth.
- Reduced aliasing/shimmer in Historical imagery mode.
- For Consumer and Pro version, moved Terrain setting to options menu from layers panel.
- Improved Earth Gallery integration in application and changed Add Content Button to Earth Gallery button on layers panel.
- Added support for ZH-HK language.
- Added support for MGRS coordinate system.
- Added support for editing coordinates in UTM.

Known Issues and Workarounds

In Google Earth Pro, while using movie-making with high resolutions you could run into issues of text and view being distorted in OpenGL mode. We are fixing this issue. If you run into this issue, there are three workarounds

Use window size such that 3D view is larger than resolution of movie being recorded.
Use window size such that both vertical and horizontal size of 3D window is smaller than resolution needed.
If you are using windows platform, you can use DirectX mode.

Changes for Google Earth Plug-in 5.2

Enhanced Time support:
- ability to toggle Historical imagery in Google Earth Plug-in (#235)
- ability to create timestamps and timespans (#177).
- ability to toggle time UI (#202)
- ability to set plug-in’s clock rate. (#208, #143, #381, #419, #396)
- ability to set the plug-in’s virtual time/clock (#104)
- Improved accessors:
  - getUrl
  - getComputedStyle (#392)
  - getElementbyUrl
  - getElementbyId (fixed #60)
  - getElementbyType
  - getElementsByStyleUrl
  - Access to Balloon Content
  - Ability to get balloon content using getBalloonDescription, getBalloonHtml, and getBalloonHtmlUnsafe (#16) (#97).

Earth version 5.100B

Release Notes for 5.100B This release is a maintenance release which fixes the following bugs:

fixes to icon style heading
fixed labels in Pro hi-res printing
honor default layer visibility for enterprise databases
getKML now allows fetching of arbitrarily long strings of KML (Google Earth API)
added https support for enterprise API (Google Earth API)
fixed region fade-extent bug as reported here:
http://http://code.google.com/p/earth-api-samples/issues/detail?id=329
fixed issue with placemarks flashing in region-based network links as reported here:
http://code.google.com/p/kml-samples/issues/detail?id=310
fixed crash-on-exit bug
PhotoOverlay now derived from kmlOverlay instead of kmlFeature (kmlPhotoOverlay.getColor() is now working) (Google Earth API)

Additionally, with this release the following changes have been made:

removal of "beta" label from Google Earth clients
bundling of Google Earth browser plug-in with Mac installer
added Intel-only Mac installer package

Earth version 5.1

Release Notes for Google Earth 5.1

Google Earth 5.1 release is mostly a performance and bug fix release upgrade over Google Earth 5.0. Salient changes include:

Improved Startup Time. The improvement is most noticeable when users launch the Earth application multiple times.
Improved overall rendering performance. Changes include faster atmosphere rendering and using compressed textures whenever possible.
Improved Road rendering Performance: Frame rate at places with dense road networks is three times faster than in previous releases.
Improved memory utilization in the application.
Significantly smoother frame-rate and less stuttering in the application compared to previous releases.
Improved performance with large region based network link KML documents. Some of large KML documents are now processed and rendered at more than twice the speed of earlier releases.
Improved KML document handling performance. Large regionated KML Image overlays are up to 80% faster than previous releases.
Support for KML hint = moon or mars to switch to moon or mars based on kml document.
Availability of one installer that installs both the Google Earth application and browser plugin.
Desktop Application now works on Windows 7.
Users can set the memory cache size up to 1024 MB now.

Release notes for Google Earth Browser Plugin 5.1
All of the notes for the Google Earth Application apply to browser plugin version. Additional changes include:

API additions: Please refer to API documentation for details.
- KmlListStyle::listItemType and KmlListeItemTypeEnum
- google.earth.executeBatch(fn)
- GETourPlayer::get/setCurrentTime
- GETourPlayer::getDuration
- GESchemaObject::release()
- Experimental feature KmlFeature::get/setOpacity
Improved performance for Javascript application by allocating time for it in Google Earth.
One installer available that installs both desktop application and browser plugin.

Earth version 5.0.1

Release notes for Google Earth 5.0.1

3D Buildings: OpenGL mode performance is improved. Buildings are streamed in smoother, and low memory situations are handled better.
Tours: Make flyto and tour paths smoother by fixing several cases for jitters and unexpected jumps in camera path. Improve tour creation so that the tour path has smooth interpolation. On pause, open balloons are left open instead of closing them. Support generating tours from nested folders of placemarks.
Collada Models: Enhance collada model handling to work when Multiple resources associated with same model. Improve handling of animated textures on the models.
Pro Movie Maker: Fix movie maker to work well in presence of animated water surface. Fix holes seen in high resolution movies. Fix bugs in creating large AVI movies. Fix a crash while recording movies. Fixed high resolution movie creation in cases where it would distort view.
Fix installation failure on 64 bit linux machines related to linking against wrong version of libssl.
Improved culling of objects near poles.
Fix the case where Earth kept continuously updating after a tour was finished.
Fix handling of drag and drop in left menu between folders.
Remove occasional spurious scrollbars in balloons.
Fix holes in high resolution movies and printing. Fix tears in high resolution image save and print when animated water was in view.
Fix a crash in switching to Mars from photo view.
Fix Mars atmosphere for some graphics cards so that it shows up with red color instead of blue now.
Show appropriate historical imagery tickmarks when zoomed way in.
Fix cases that let sound continue playing even after a balloon was closed or tour was paused.
Fix text clustering when eye is below water.
Fix a crash on shutdown.
Fix issues with handling altitude modes in <Camera> tags below and above water.

Earth version 5.0

Google 地球 5.0 版本資訊 Google 地球 5.0 和更新版本的新功能：

支援顯示水下地形、水面以及水下 3D 模型。
支援歷史圖像，包括新的使用者介面元素，以供選取歷史圖像資源。
可錄製與播放遊覽或簡報的新遊覽功能，並提供錄音及播音功能。
Google 地球顯示的說明框現在全面支援 HTML、Javascript 與 iframe。
星空與行星下拉式選單亦能顯示火星的圖像/地形/圖層。
支援 15 種新語言，總共支援 41 種語言。
Google 地球的時間資訊採用了新的整合使用者介面、支援日光、有時間屬性的 KML 以及歷史圖像。
重新設計了使用者介面圖示與歡迎畫面。
支援按一下線條與多邊形開啟說明資訊框的功能。
支援任意角落的地面重疊位置。
在支援的電腦上預設啟用 3D 建築物。
可在 Windows 系統上的 OpenGL 模式中使用全景消除鋸齒的功能。
在免費版本中正式提供全球衛星定位系統裝置追蹤匯入 (共有 46 種新裝置) 以及即時追蹤功能。如需更多相關資訊，請前往：http://www.earth.google.com/userguide/v4/ug_gps.html
為 KML 內容提供更醒目的標籤。
在 Windows 上，針對所有使用者或單一使用者分別提供了不同的安裝程式。

Improvements in Google Earth 5.0:

Faster start-up time.
Earth honors cache settings more rigorously.
Faster processing of KML files.
Significant performance improvements for 3D buildings in DirectX mode.
Enhanced support for anisotropic filtering.
Improved level of detail computation for better performance and quality.
Use OGC standard KML name when saving KML files.
Support for installers for users with non-administrative priviledges on Vista.
Improved performace for regionated KML files.
Improved performance in Pro version printing images, saving images and capturing movies.
Added HD view / output sizes.

Known Issues in Google Earth 5.0:

In low memory situations, 3D buildings may not get displayed on Earth. Some of the workarounds include increasing cache size from options menu, restoring defaults from options menu, restarting application and clearing memory cache.
On some windows systems, sound recording may not work. In this case, you can fix it by installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (x86).
For KML content, balloon formatting may be different as compared to previous versions and an unnecessary horizontal scroll bar may show up.
Switching to sky from Mars does not change the search box to do sky search. As a workaround, you would need to switch to Earth and switch back to sky.
Sometimes, overlays drawn on ocean surface may also get drawn on the underwater terrain.
Missing images in balloons may cause balloons to flicker.
In KMZ files with network links, styles from a link do not always override styles from parent file.
KML files saved from client have unnecessary extra namespace declaration.
Using a "fly to" (by double clicking a place mark) when recording a tour might lead into a jitters in recording.